100 Top Grossing Movies Of All Time

The latest Spider-Man movie picks up where “Avengers: Endgame” left off. The superhero joins old friends while on vacation in Europe to find out what’s behind mysterious strange creature attacks. “Spider-Man: Far from Home” holds high scores among critics and audiences, at 91% and 95%, respectively.

The third of five Transformers movies, and the last one with Shia LaBeouf, grossed the second largest amount at the domestic box office in 2011, behind only the last movie of the Harry Potter franchise. Similar to its predecessors, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” was nominated for several Oscars, including for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.

“Monsters, Inc.” was the fourth feature release for Pixar. John Goodman and Billy Crystal star in the leading roles as two professional monsters tasked with returning a 2-year-old girl to the human world. According to the Critics Consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie is a “resounding example of how Pixar elevated the bar for modern all-ages animation.” The film has a 96% Freshness rating among Rotten Tomatoes critics and a 90% score among audiences.

“Despicable Me 2” proved to be a worthy sequel to the original and was the third-highest grossing movie in 2013. The Critics Consensus on Rotten Tomatoes says the film has “eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs.” Audience members on Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie an 85% approval score.

Critics on Rotten Tomatoes did not think “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” was “quite as thrillingly fresh” as its predecessor, but they applauded its “action-packed plot, dazzling visuals, and irreverent humor,” according to the Critics Consensus. The film, which was made with a budget of more than $200 million, has an 85% Freshness rating among Rotten Tomatoes critics, and 87% of audiences liked the movie.

In “Spider-Man 3,” the superhero confronts stronger villains and something else — a new suit that augments his powers that he finds difficult to control. Audiences responded positively to Spider-Man’s inner conflict and delivered the strongest opening weekend of any of the seven franchise films, at more than $151 million domestically. “Spider-Man 3” was the top grossing film of 2007.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” launched the five-movie franchise that features Johnny Depp as the stoned, swashbuckling pirate Jack Sparrow. The film’s world premiere was held at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California on June 28, 2003. The film was a box office hit and the second highest-grossing film of 2003.

Dustin Hoffman stars as Michael Dorsey — a down on his luck actor who pretends to be a woman in order to get work — in this film from director Sydney Pollack. The movie was nominated for 10 Oscars, with Jessica Lange winning for Best Actress. The strong supporting cast for this intelligent and moving comedy included Teri Garr, Bill Murray, and Charles Durning.

Bolstered by the star power of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” — about high school kids becoming the avatars in a video game with a jungle theme — was a hit in 2017. It is the most successful of the four-movie franchise. The movie has an approval score from 87% of audience members on Rotten Tomatoes.

Director Milos Forman’s counterculture staple “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was both a financial and critical success. In addition to selling an estimated 53.7 million tickets in the U.S. and Canada since its release, the movie won five Oscars, including Best Picture. The movie, which stars Jack Nicholson as the manic free spirit who is checked into an insane asylum, maintains a 94% critic and 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.